European Glocalization in Global Context [electronic resource] /
Robertson, R.editor.
This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization. The contributors deal with a range of topics including migration, media, football, beauty, Christianity, democracy and the European Union.
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This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization. The contributors deal with a range of topics including migration, media, football, beauty, Christianity, democracy and the European Union.
Prologue / Roland Robertson -- Europeanization as glocalization / Roland Robertson -- Forms of the world : roots, histories, and horizons of the glocal / Franciscu Sedda -- The globalisations of Christianity in Europe : a global-historical perspective / Victor Roudometof -- European television programming : exemplifying and theorizing glocalization in the media / Andrea Esser -- Glocalization effects of immigrants' activities on the host society : an exploration of a neglected theme -- From football to futebol : a glocal perspective on the influence of Europe on Brazilian football (and vice-versa) / Paolo Demuru -- Exploring the global flow of beauty : from Euro-America to the world? / Debra Gimlin -- Glocalization and the simultaneous rise and fall of democracy at century's end / Chris Kollmeyer -- Epilogue / Roland Robertson.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Religion and sociology.
Sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Democracy.
Globalization.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Sociology of Religion.
Sociology, general.
Migration.
Democracy.
Globalization.